Just a quick note to remind anyone who is still subscribing to this blog that I have now moved over completely to Dreamwidth.

The url is: http://miss-s-b.dreamwidth.org/ and it's syndicated to LJ as miss_sb_dw, for those of you whose preferred mode of reading that is.

Please to be updating your bookmarks, RSS readers, and blogrolls. Thank you!

I have now completely moved over to Dreamwidth, and this will be (probably) the last post to this journal. Please, please, please update your links, RSS readers, and blogrolls to reflect the change. If you are on LJ, the relevant syndicated feed name is miss_sb_dw. I know it's a pain in the arse to ask you to do this, but I won't be changing blog platforms again, or if I do it won't be for a long time, since I have top-whack-permanent-seed account on DW, and will be the premiumest of premium users over there.

If any of you are checking out Dreamwidth, by the way, there are a bunch of politics comms you might want to join/add:

• UK Politics community.
• Real Ale lover's community.
• Liberty in the UK - a non-partisan community for UK Liberals of all parties (name shamelessly nicked from Rob Knight - sorry Rob!).

I am also watching lots and lots of politics-related feeds - too many to list here - check my DW profile for details (for those of you who don't know, DW works as a feed-reader and blogging platform in one, so most of you will probably see your own blogs being fed to DW if you check).

As from today, I will no longer be posting to The Yorksher Gob, and my LJ account will only be updated with crossposts when I remember to do them and twitter updates (to make absolutely sure that my large LJ f-list will be notified when I post and won't miss anything unless they choose to). This is mostly what has been happening for the last week or so anyway. I will still be reading my LJ f-list and commenting and things. I am not abandoning my friends on LJ, or deleting my account, or anything over dramatic like that.

My new home is at http://miss-s-b.dreamwidth.org Please update your bookmarks and RSS readers as necessary.

If you have any questions feel free to ask them - but bear in mind that from hitting post on this to midnight I will be at work and I might not get back to you immediately ;)

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This entry was originally posted at my Dreamwidth blog. Please comment there using OpenID.

Isn't the new Lib Dem tax policy grand? We got real proper news airtime and everything!

There, that's political blogging out the way for the moment. In other news, I have been v v v busy not posting all the stuff I keep promising to do and falling further behind setting up for the shiny new internet future! I have mentioned Dreamwidth already. The plan is to move over there lock, stock and two smoking barrels when my paid account on LJ runs out, in August.

At the moment, this is having a number of effects:

• I am not posting at theyorkshergob as much, because I am over at DW setting stuff up and such


• I have transferred all of my non-f-locked reading material over there as of today.


• I am randomly squeeing on twitter lots


• I have already started making substantive posts over there, but so far mostly memeage

This means that if you're not yet watching my Dreamwidth blog, you've not yet missed much. But you will, if you don't start watching it soon.

If you are on my personal LJ f-list:

You don't have to do anything. Courtesy of twitterfeed, everything I post will be shipped in once per day by LoudTwitter. Of course, if you have an irrational phobia of clicking twitterfeed posts, you'll miss stuff, but that's entirely your choice and I, as a Liberal, won't deny it to you. And besides, you can just add miss_sb_dw to your f-lists and then you won't miss a thing ;)

If you are not on my LJ f-list:

Then you need to start following the DW blog as well as theyorkshergob. I shall try not to crosspost too much, which means that you will inevitably miss stuff if you follow one but not the other. Eventually I shall be going over there completely, but not just yet.

Either way, if you fancy a DW account of your own:

Comment on one of my posts over there. Or Mat's. Or somebody's. Because (as Mat says in the comments below) they will offer accounts to validated openIDs as soon as possible when the site goes live.

I realise that this is a pain in the arse for many of you, but I promise it'll be better in the long run. Dreamwidth works kind of like I always hoped LJ would. The OpenID stuff actually works. Lots of other stuff actually work. I am deeply in love with it.

Oh yeah, and I already have a queue for invite codes. Ozzy, Del, Scarlettgirl, in that order. As soon as I get some, they shall be handed out.

I shall copy and paste the text of ( my first ever LJ entry, for those who don't have access to it... )
So, what has changed for me since then?

Well, I have a lot less money to play with.
I have passed my bike test, bought and lost two motorbikes, and am now bikeless.
I have a different home, a different job, and most importantly, a different 'im indoors.
I have an extra doggie, and have gained and lost two snakes.

And despite all that upheaval, and the lack of cash? I am much much much emotionally better off.

LJ, meanwhile, has started having adverts, has sold out and sold its userbase down the river, and if anything better had come along before, I'd probably have been off a while ago... So I am really crossing my fingers for Dreamwidth.

Hullo world! I am still trying to catch up with my mammoth backlog, and this is complicated by the fact that I have taken the plunge with Dreamwidth. So you all still know I am alive etc., have some linkies:

• Firstly, my beloved explains why Dreamwidth is so awesome and why we are both so stoked about it. Another clue is in their diversity statement, which reads like the preamble to the constitution to me...


• We are having a Beltane Beer Festival at work, and you're all invited, if you can get to it!


• Perse posts a nice discursive post about the writing of New Who in dw_academy. Also, Daddies Richard and Alex might want to nosey at this post ;)


• Mr Quist strikes again in his puncturing of government.


• And finally, Lidl's most tempting offer yet - via huskyteer. Suspect hairygit will be especially interested in that one.

And now I must go watch more Batman with my Small Person. Oh the trials of motherhood...